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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'The Philosophical Culture' and 'Is Mathematics purely Linguistic?'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

1489	Modern philosophy tends to be a theory-constructing extension of science, but there is also problem-solving [Nagel]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

21570

Numbers are just verbal conveniences, which can be analysed away [Russell]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]